and it proved impossible to establish them.) At this same session, to draft a decree on consumer communes and a plan for transition from bourgeois cooperation to new forms, a commission was elected consisting of N. N. Krestinsky, V. P. Nogin, and M. I. Frumkin. The draft decree was submitted to a session of the Council of People's Commissars on 15 March 1919, but discussion of the question was postponed to the following day. On 16 March 1919 the draft decree was approved by the Council of People's Commissars. Chegodaev and O. Yu. Schmidt were instructed to edit it within one day and present it for Lenin's signature.

In the materials of the Council of People's Commissars there has been preserved a draft decree with Lenin's corrections and the final edited text bearing Lenin's signature; this text contains a number of additions and changes in comparison with the draft decree.

Below is printed the draft decree with Lenin's corrections; in the footnotes are given the most substantial additions and changes made in the final text, probably at Lenin's direction; this is attested to by the exchange of notes between Lenin and N. N. Krestinsky (see p. 293), probably at the session of 15 March during review of the initial draft decree (not preserved in the materials).

The Decree on Consumer Communes was published in *Izvestiya VTsIK* No. 60, 20 March 1919.

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